| Week 1 Introduction |
Feb 2 | Introduction. Overview and motivation. The Telephone Network and the Internet. Circuit Switching vs. Packet Switching. History of the Internet. | Peterson Ch .1 |
| Feb 4 |
Bandwidth-delay product. Network Architecture. Reliable Transmission. | ||
| Week 2 Reliable Delivery |
Feb 9 | Framing, ARQ, Stop-and-Wait, RTT estimation, sliding window, Go-Back-N retransmission. | Peterson 3.1-3.5 |
| Feb 11 |
UDP, TCP, Internet checksum. Connection establishment. | Peterson 6.1-6.2 | |
| Week 3 Socket Programming |
Feb 16 |
No Class | |
| Feb 18 |
Implementation and Berkeley sockets. To be held in Athena cluster 3-462. | ||
| Week 4 Congestion Control |
Feb 23 |
Flow control vs. congestion control. Congestion collapse. Window-based congestion control. Fairness. | Peterson 8.1, 8.3 |
| Feb 25 |
TCP congestion control. Slow start. Fast retransmit. Fast recovery. | Peterson 8.3 | |
| Week 5 Congestion Control |
Mar 2 |
Further discussion on TCP and recent enhancements. | Peterson 8.4.3 |
| Mar 4 |
Rate-based congestion control. Leaky Bucket Algorithm. | ||
| Week 6 Queuing and Scheduling; Routing |
Mar 9 | FIFO and fair queueing disciplines. Max-min fairness. | Peterson 8.2 |
| Mar 11 | Datagram networks; virtual circuits. Distance-vector and link-state routing. Routing metrics and instabilities. | Peterson 4.1, 4.2 | |
| Week 7 Routing & Switching |
Mar 16 |
Cell switching & ATM service classes. | Peterson 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 |
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| Week 8 | Mar 23 & 25 |
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| Week 9 Routing & Switching |
Mar 30 | Switch architectures. Switching fabrics. Space-division multiplexing vs. shared-memory switches. | Peterson 5.1 |
| Apr 1 | Bridges, extended LANs, Spanning tree algorithm. Broadcast flooding. | Peterson 5.1 | |
| Week 10 Internetworking |
Apr 6 |
Internet Protocol (IP) The best effort service model. IP header structure. | Peterson 5.2 |
| Apr 8 | IP Addressing. Forwarding. Subnet addressing. | ||
| Week 11 Internetworking |
Apr 13 | Inter- and intra-domain routing. RIP, OSPF, BGP. CIDR. | Peterson 5.3 |
| Apr 15 | |||
| Week 12 | Apr 20 | No Class. | |
| Apr 22 | Naming and the DNS. Efficiency and consistency tradeoffs. | Peterson 5.6 | |
| Week 13 Link/MAC Layer |
Apr 27 | Introduction to media access control. ALOHA. | Peterson 3.6 |
| Apr 29 | CSMA/CD. Analysis of the efficiency of CSMA/CD. Ethernet. History and operation. | ||
| Week 14 Physical Layer |
May 4 | Shannon's law. Source and channel coding. BCH Codes. | Peterson 3.1-3.4 |
| May 6 | Source coding and compression. | Peterson 7.2 | |
| Week 15 Network Security |
May 11 | Security and Cryptography. | Peterson 7.3 |
| May 13 |